Beautiful colony went to the crapper

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wickedfish

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I had this beauty for over a week now and I made the mistake of adding to much flow next to it. ( it had a large koralia in front of it at the coral store) I have an mp40 w es and well I think this was the reason it started to turn white because the area that started was in the center where the current would I guess melt it.

This is a shot of the good side I will post the after math in a bit its not pretty, lets just say I fragged it all up and the frags that were close to the die off are almost dead, i have to large fragolas that look like the might make it though. pics coming:hammer::sad2:
 
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This is one of the 2 that look like they want to live the others were lil b's.
 
Yeah brother i have learned not to buy the big pretty ones form now on little guys, I bought another one from the same tank pretty large and its doing well a bit less on the intensity of green but all in all bright and perky, so I dont think it was the water. The other frag rock is also doing nice exactly the same as when I bought it all on the same day only difference was the flow and light positioning
 
yeah after reading i only want frags, sure it takes a few years but it seems people lose alot f colonies for no good reason. Once yours heal up id love some pink millepora frags for my tank ;-)
 
Dude this thing was sooooo intense in color it was like nothing i have seen before and I have snorkeled in places full of corals. It was like seeing well i dont have to explain cause your hooked too, to me it was like when I was single and I saw the hottest girl in the bar, I had to get the cahones and throw game, sort of like that with out the rejection...well sometimes
 
I am surprised that noone has pointed out that maricultured pieces are hard to care for... This piece is definitely a maricultured piece. ? for the OP??? How long has your tank been setup? Also, what are your paramaters? See, you are taking a nice piece of coral that was raised in NSW value paramters in the ocean, then shipped, then sits in the tanks at the store, then usually cherry picked quickly. When a shipment comes in, make note, go back a week later and keep going back over the next several weeks... Many times, the corals will show signs of being upset by browning, tissue loss, lack of PE, and or other bacterial infections. If your tank is not mature and stable with success in keeping sps, you will likely fail with maricultured, they look sweet, but don't be fooled, they are very hard to keep happy in our mimick environments. Depending on your knowledge and time in the hobby, you may want to stick with aquacultured for now...

I agree, not likely flow related, they get more flow than you can create naturally:)

Good luck
 
very true-
i have one maricultured piece that has survived.
also beware of wild colonies/frags. i have ony had a couple of those make it!
 
Pyle, damn it your good! I went to the store to try to get some credit or a hook up, and I saw its brother doing poorly too, the other colony I was going to buy also had issues nothing like 10 days ago. So anyways I asked all the relevant questions I could think of, what they dose..nothing, calcium reactor check, they change water daily a percentage check, they feed the display and then circulate that through out the frag and colony tanks, he some times feeds the corals directly if they dont look so good, they use catalina water, also they have 400 watt mh
My tank dd h2o salt, feed twice a day fish 2 a week for the corals, 1 spot fed of the 2, dose manually, parameters pristine for 3 weeks but before the trates were up but not crazy now at 0,. Also I have 250 watters.
 
Adding info tank is not that old but I do have some rather large colonies one is a good 10-11" across, my montis are huge, my 2 month acro frags are huge mini colonies and I also have the pink lemonade and some mille that has not grown or had much color. I have some good color on some and some fleshy crappy colored ones that looked good when I got them. And yes I will take the advice of buying aquacultured frags not colonies from now on, but man that thing was sweeeeet too bad.
 
wickedfish said:
Pyle, damn it your good! I went to the store to try to get some credit or a hook up, and I saw its brother doing poorly too, the other colony I was going to buy also had issues nothing like 10 days ago. So anyways I asked all the relevant questions I could think of, what they dose..nothing, calcium reactor check, they change water daily a percentage check, they feed the display and then circulate that through out the frag and colony tanks, he some times feeds the corals directly if they dont look so good, they use catalina water, also they have 400 watt mh
My tank dd h2o salt, feed twice a day fish 2 a week for the corals, 1 spot fed of the 2, dose manually, parameters pristine for 3 weeks but before the trates were up but not crazy now at 0,. Also I have 250 watters.
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Not good, just experienced and not so good at resisting urges, especially those of maricultured just on arrival... They are grown in natural sea water, under the sun, then shipped... They go into even mature tanks and are already exposed to different temp, alk, ca, mag, s.g., etc... Not to mention the oceans bountifullness of nutrients for feedings in pristine water. Now to the confines of a tank. Certain corals will adapt, some will not. I have been lucky with a wild colony of green humilus with purple tips, it has been fragged and is growing well in a friends tank for 1st gen of this amazing coral. I got lucky, but did not buy this coral on my 1st visit, I purchased 6 weeks later, then noticed the PE and potential. I have had this coral for 2 years now, still one of the healthiest corals I have. I have burnt through quite a few to get there, so my experience is to wait and be patient, those phenomenal colors wont be that way for long:)
GL
 
I put pyle sorry plyle, interesting enough I bought another guy out of the same tank and it has been a champ and the frags from the same circuit different tank also doing very well. It had to be the most expensive one that had to die.... the pieces I fragged were all white last night on the base then today they have the color on the base I am pretty sure only that one large piece is gonna make it even the tall piece is just about dead as can be
 
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